Melita M. Garza

Americans, or at least the most news-obsessed Americans, parked in front of their television sets Monday for the extraordinary sight of the president delivering testimony before a grand jury about...

A federal judge on Friday approved the settlement of Chicago's 6 1/2-year-old ward remap case, setting the stage for a final battle over legal fees. Since city officials and the...

A 6 1/2-year, multimillion dollar legal battle over the city's ward map was boiled down to some simple, if brutal, essentials Monday as both sides came to an agreement in...

Rare is the employee who hasn't been solicited by his boss to contribute money to a favorite charity or volunteer for the company's pet cause. But now, in an unusual...

The Chicago Public Schools plan announced Monday to open 10 new day-care centers for teen mothers is being touted as a way to lower the dropout rate among female students...

A North Side man who drove into Lake Michigan early Wednesday became the fourth confirmed fatality within two days on the city's waterways, with the body of a fifth drowning...

Cook County Recorder of Deeds Jesse White and Orland Park Police Chief Timothy McCarthy awaited the voters' verdict Tuesday night after a contentious Democratic primary campaign for the nomination for...

Cook County Recorder of Deeds Jesse White defeated Orland Park Police Chief Tim McCarthy Tuesday night for the Democratic nomination for Illinois secretary of state. On the other side of...

The Yellow Cab Association on Thursday filed a lawsuit in federal court against the City of Chicago, contending a new cabbie ordinance illegally forced the company to sell 640 of...

Frustrated by a lack of funding needed to repair and expand the Chicago area's mass transit network, the board of the Regional Transportation Authority on Friday unanimously approved a bare-bones...